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Tampons are designed to catch menstrual flow. They are easy to use, affordable, and preferable in many cases. Simplistically speaking choosing the right tampon shouldn't be difficult for most women and fairly quidkly we learn that both the fit and the absorbancy have to match your anatomy and physiology to be comfortable and safe. Tampons that contained certain types of fibers in the 1970s and 1980s that were too absorbant encouraged the overgrowth of bacteria that caused Toxic Shock Syndrome .  Once these polyacrylate rayon-containing tampons were removed from the market very few of these cases are ever reported. Tampons are packaged to be sterile from production, but most are not sterile, and rarely there have been recalls of sanitary products that have been determined to carry bacteria from the manufacturing point. Tampons are not a typical source of infection. Tampons come in many sizes, and larger ones will retain more menstrual blood, for the most part. Most phys...

Losing a tampon in the vagina is not as absurd as it sounds. It really is a matter of accidentally not removing one you've put there.Maybe it got to be a late day of your period, or you changed during the night, and sleepiness took over. Tampons are designed to absorb a lot of moisture, although not as much as they actually used to absorb, and it's often not apparent for a long time that something is a bit amiss. In general the patients we see have no actual pain, and often they don't have much discharge, but complain most dramatically of odor. Occasionally there is a significant amount of discharge. The discharge usually turns dark brown, it can even be black. Actually our ability to normalize the bacteria in the vagina is so great that many physicians will just treat with removing the 'lost' or 'forgotten' tampon and often antibiotics aren't necessary unless the odor and discharge doesn't resolve for a few days. Serious side effects such as Toxic ...